Oral history.; Reverend Kenneth Haynes Sr. was born October 11, 1930, in Amite County, Mississippi. In 1958, he entered the ministry, enrolling in Harper Baptist College where he received a Diploma in Christian Education and a Doctorate of...
Oral history.; Mr. Earl Napoleon Moore was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on December 19, 1914. His father was a ship and bridge carpenter, and his mother was a homemaker. Mr. Moore graduated from Biloxi Colored High School. He was a boxer and a...
Oral history.; On April 8, 1927, Dr. Pete Walker was born in Lumberton, Mississippi. When Dr. Walker was four years old, his mother passed away. As a child, Dr. Walker worked in his father's cafes. Dr. Walker attended Jones County Junior College...
Oral history.; Percy Brooks was born on November 15, 1911 to a family of farmers. His grandfather had been freed from slavery during the Civil War, and afterwards sharecropped and rented land to save money to buy eighty acres in 1909. Mr. Brooks...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Program for a concert held by the State Teachers College Band on the courthouse lawn in Hattiesburg on 20 May 1928.
Photograph of the Mississippi Southern College band in front of the Administration Building. Photo featured in the 1962 Southerner yearbook on page 143.
Photograph of the band marching in a downtown parade featured in the 1951 Southerner yearbook on page 38. The Coney Island Sandwich Shop is in the background; 9 x 4.5
Photograph of three featuretts standing around a band member. The caption reads, "So what if it is for real?"; This photo is featured in the 1958 Southerner yearbook on page 120; 4 x 5
Photograph of Sam Denton (top) and Talmage Walker (bottom). Taken during a State Teachers College band camping trip on Black Creek in the spring of 1929.
Photograph of Dr. William D. McCain sitting in the stands at a football game in front of the band. A similar version of this photograph is in the 1972 Southerner yearbook on page 153.
Photograph of members of Pride of Mississippi marching band in the stands at a football game. Some band members wear rain coats or slickers, while others wear bath robes and hold toilet plungers. At the bottom of the photograph is a banner with...
